The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

necessary economy which none more
than farmers wives know better how TO
execute. l have not been a farmers |
wife, but have been farmers daugh-
ter, and being the eldest of seven (my |
Household sisters will know what that
means) / always found enough to do
from my earliest recollection, which |
shall ever be grateful for, as the neces- ,
sary habits of economy and industry
formed there in early childhood have
proved very great help and blessing
to me in later life by helping to make
a home, though in very different line
of business. l have yet to learn where
in any capacity economy is not the first
essential thing to practice, especially II
q couple start in life without capital; if
with capital, then prudence is neces-
sary, as it is easier to lose than to earn.
/ am conceited enough to believe that
where all is well managed the farm is
the best early school of industry, for
either boy or girl, that they can have to
fit them for any following capacity.
Its hardships and necessary economy
there participated III help them to get
over difficulties which so often block
the way, and also help them to know
how to appreciate what their judg-
ment and hands may bring in after life.
want to thank the sister for the in
formation regarding the burning of
green wood as a waste. / know of
those whose eyes may see it and be
benefited thereby. Though l never
knew it before, my father always
looked out for rainy day" and had
an abundance of dry wood at hand.
That may have been his reason for so
doing.
| wonder that mothers at the present
day do not more carefully instruct their
daughters in the various domestic
duties. 1t would not only help them
to know well how to manage a home
for themselves, if necessary, but should
adversely come to them it would render
them valuable help to others and be of
great value to themselves, as double
salary is paid for such.
Regarding the g training of boys"
have often thought there would be
more pleasant homes and less worn-out
young women if the husbands of such
had been taught, when young, the
habits of system, caretaking, unselfish-
ness and painstaking, and to know that
a woman's work was complicated and
wearisome, and that little help from
the male portion of the family, in
way of leaving the mud and sand from
boots on outside door-mats and hang
ing up clothes on entering, would go a
good way toward helping to keep the
home and clothes tidy and the wife and
mother young and cheerful. But when
boy is taught to do these helps for
his mother and drops them off when
he gets a wife, then will some one tell
what to do with him?
Will some of the sisters please send
rule for making fish-chowder?
REMARKS.-A word concerning green
wood. Its wastefulness was not over
stated by the writer CA. r. L., we be.
lieve) who spoke of it. Green WOOD
makes just as much heat as dry, but
in dry we secure nearly all the heat
while in green from one-half to two
thirds, one authority says, passes of
latent and useless in evaporating the
water which it contains. A cubic foo
of green birch wood weighs sixty
pounds, of which ten pounds is water
green elm is nearly half water. Thinl
how much fire it would take in stove
under kettle to evaporate ten pound:
of water, which, passing into vapor
absorbs nearly one thousand degrees
of heat. Is it not best to have the fire
wood seasoned? Will some reade
please send up the chowder, or how t.